1. What products does the team design?
2. Is the designers’ inventive drive influenced by the environment they live and work in?
3. How many designers and engineers are there in “7,5” design team?
4. Do they share the idea that design is about fulfilling the need? How do they establish the need? What is the main feature of a well-designed object in terms of comfort?
5. How does the development of a product begin?
6. What are the proofs of a successful design?
7. Is the designers’ fantasy restricted by anything? What’s the main restriction on it?
8. What is the link between design and innovation? Should good design be innovative?
9. Is design more about art or engineering? How can one assess the engineering and artistic part of design?
10. What are designers driven by?

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RamondLoewy :

1. What other things, besides corporate logos, did R. Loewy design?
2. What do all these objects have in common?
3. Why does the clip start with the image of an egg?
4. Why was Ray Loewy included in the 100 of the most influential Americans of the 20th century? Does the idea of simplification still have impact on modern design?
5. Why did his career as a designer take off at the height of the Great Depression?